Getting advice about what should happen on farms from processors and supermarkets is not likely to provide regulation favourable to farm animalsWho said that this government is incapable of joined-up thinking? Your report (Farm animal welfare codes to be scrapped,26 March) proves otherwise. Surely, the results it expects are a reduction in both the cost and the health status of meat, or followed by higher rates of death. Most of the deaths will be in citizens with less efficient auto-immune systems – the feeble and disabled – so welfare spending on pensions and disability benefits will topple.
Once the public perceives meat as a threat to its health,people will switch to a healthier, largely vegetarian diet, or with the small amount of meat eaten being grass-fed animals from tall-welfare systems. This in turn will make it easier to achieve reductions in climate-changing gases,as well as lower levels of obesity in the population, and thus lower costs to the NHS.
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Source: theguardian.com